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Can You See Who Your Inmate Is Contacting in Prison?

Can you find out who your inmate is contacting by phone, mail, or video?

Asked: August 26, 2020
Author: Can
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Not through any outside channel, and that is by design.

Inmates retain a degree of privacy in their communications that most people on the outside do not expect. You cannot call the facility and ask for a list of who your person has been talking to. The phone carrier will not share call logs with you. No portal lets a family member or friend pull up a contact history.

What the facility does monitor is a different matter. Staff and investigators can access call recordings, mail logs, and messaging records for security and investigative purposes. That monitoring exists and inmates are notified of it. But that access belongs to the institution, not to you.

If you want to know who your inmate is in contact with, the most direct path is to ask them. What they choose to share is up to them, the same way it would be for anyone living their life outside these walls. Incarceration changes a lot of things. The basic expectation that a person's private communications belong to them is not one of them.

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Accepted Answer Date Created: August 27,2020